Infrared imaging detection technology can help diagnosis of traditional Chinese Medicine

Li Hongjuan Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Infrared imaging technology are used in traditional Chinese medicine research has 20 years of history, especially in the meridian research achievements. But the use of infrared imaging technology to assist clinical syndrome differentiation in TCM research, is rare, the author uses 5 years of time, studying with great concentration, according to the classical theory of traditional Chinese medicine and modern theoretical physics, founded the organs positioning, chills and fever order from qualitative infrared analysis method, the organs and meridians acupoint hot and TCM Syndromes of close together, to achieve infrared imaging detection auxiliary clinical diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine on 2011 October, the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine TCM diagnosis and treatment in" equipment to promote the project" in traditional Chinese medicine experts to organize this technology to conduct a technical audit, recommended the technology in Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine to promote the use of. This paper introduces the new technology principle, clinical research and technology.

        The detection principle of infrared imaging in traditional Chinese Medicine

        According to traditional Chinese medicine diagnostics teaching material, the human image is divided into 16 areas: namely chest support, virtual, left and right flank, epigastric, abdominal, lower abdomen, lower abdomen, waist area around around, according to" acupoints study" teaching material, the torso section, the position of governor vessel. According to the law of black-body radiation" Stephen Boltzmann 's law": E T4 = sigma ( sigma is ray frequency, in the human body is a constant), based on the temperature difference algorithm, to calculate the various regional hot Delta T, by comparing the health calm state organs of thermal sequence curve, evaluation region corresponding viscera heat deviation. Such as healthy people Du hot than Ren hot 1.5 degrees ( yin yang balance state ), when the body is Yang deficiency, or Yin heat, temperature decreases by two, and the phenomenon of the" Governor Yang pulse of the sea, as the sea of yin meridians" theory anastomosis. In healthy people the heat sequence for coke coke under the hot, cool, in the middle, the temperature difference of less than 0.2 DEG C ~ 0.3, when the viscera function decline, physical biased or disease state, the thermal disorder. The thermal structure from the energy perspective" on such as fog, medium such as retting, coke under such as ditch" (" miraculous" to describe the main health association ). " Lingshu" Yin and Yang Department of the sun:" in the five reservoir, heart Yang sun, lung Yang in Shaoyin, liver yin in the Shaoyang, spleen yin in the to yin." Our results are: healthy human visceral heat order for lung - heart - Spleen - stomach - liver - kidney - life, temperature from low to high, and the relationships between yin and yang to exactly the same scripture.
        

        In nineteenth Century the Hungarian chemist Prigogine dissipative structure ( energy open system ) theory, he believes that the world exists in many open energy structure, structure from external access to enough negative entropy and its internal energy dissipation of positive entropy balance, in this system can form stable energy structure, such as a mobile phone battery, from the external charge ( obtained in negative entropy ), use electric energy consumption ( entropy ), assuming that mobile phone charging and power and energy balance, the internal battery power structure ( positive and negative ) is stable. The human body is a complex energy system, the human body from eating and breathing oxygen to obtain negative entropy, the metabolic heat generated from the surface emission ( entropy ). Healthy human heat radiating balance between energy generation, viscera orderly movement ( Yin Pingyang Secretary ), once the human body by the inner / outer environment energy interference, viscera function disorder, the individual organs should be acute heat production increased, or the radiator not free, viscera thermal change, showing a hidden heat sequence disorder, such as on the hot char, most cool, cool off, or small intestine lung heat deviation, abnormal energy structure. Combination of traditional Chinese medicine" Yang Sheng is heat, Yin is cold";" Sheng Yang Yin Yin Yang disease disease, while";" Yang deficiency and cold, heat, deficiency of Yin," can correspond to explain this cold and heat deviation of the viscera ( thermal structure imbalance of yin and Yang ), and with the syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine for comparison, such as deficient cold of spleen and stomach, colorectal real heat.

        In the study we found: normal human organs thermal structure, in different age, gender, physical fitness, seasons, at different times, analyze each individual organs thermal state standard to the people and should, must be combined with Chinese medical holistic analysis.

        Clinical research

        In order to study the internal thermal state and TCM syndromes in correspondence, we apply a statistical approach, collecting a large number of clinical samples, completed the strength of vital qi, cold and heat syndrome and nine kinds of physical organs thermal difference between the three study.

        On the hot and the human body healthy strength correlation study

        In the winter, AIDS peace and the crowd as the research object, through comparing their thermal difference, find the strength of vital qi viscera thermal characteristics. In 58 cases of HIV / AIDS patients, 54 cases of winter swimming for more than three years and 52 cases of healthy population relatively flat and high crowd of three groups in a cross-sectional study, observation, Du Ren, Shenque, kidney and the triple energizer and other organs, thermal state, using the single factor analysis of variance for mathematical statistics. Results: winter swimming group, level and quality of AIDS patients, three groups of Du hot T decreasing, and two two were statistically significant at P < 0.01; Shenque point and the relative thermal difference delta T flat and matter and winter swimming group were significantly higher than that in the AIDS group; AIDS group T was significantly higher than the thermal state of the Ren flat and matter and winter swimming group; winter swimming group, flat and matter, AIDS patients in three groups of renal hot T was gradually reduced, and two two were statistically significant at P < 0.01. Conclusion: Du, Ren, Shenque, kidney and the heat change, in this trial were expressed in the human body healthy strength, also accord with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine on upright treatise, Du Yang by sea, Shenque, renal and Mingmen Yuan Yin Yuanyang this view.

        Cold and heat syndrome of internal thermal difference study

        HIV / AIDS in syndrome study of 120 copies, tongue, pulse condition, the infrared imaging and questionnaire data complete case, in accordance with the tongue image acquisition instrument data and conclusions combined with artificial identification and diagnostic data were cold and heat syndrome group, eliminating the cold-heat jumble obvious case, get cold syndrome group 45 cases, heat syndrome group in 45 cases, and 118 cases of peace and high population (control group ) for three groups of internal thermal comparison, three groups of data T-test statistical processing. Results: the cold syndrome group in Du, Ren, Shenque, coke, coke under the regional and the control group had significant difference; the heat syndrome group in Du, coke, coke and other areas under thermal state and control group had significant difference. The cold syndrome group, plus regional hot liver was significantly lower than the heat syndrome group. Conclusion: HIV / AIDS patients with flat and quality compared to those belonging to the Yuanyang. Cold syndrome group showed lower Jiao Yuanyang deficiency, small decline in energy metabolism; heat syndrome kidney and the energy decline, its really really hurt consumption Yin yang. Heat syndrome group liver area hot than cold syndrome group, hypothesized that the presence of inflammatory pathological changes, is a traditional Chinese medicine pathogenesis embodiment of evil heat sheng.

        The nine constitution crowds viscera thermal difference to compare research

        In 2009 the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine promulgated the" nine body mass table" for physical fitness evaluation standard, in 1021 cases of physical examination population of physical assessment, simultaneous acquisition of human body infrared thermography. Screening of a physical single data 552, wherein the flat and quality of 330 people, and quality of 57 people, 39 people of Yang-deficiency constitution, quality 37, phlegm-wetness type 18, hydrothermal matter 29 people, 27 people of blood stasis Qi-stagnation constitution, quality 9, special intrinsic quality of 6 people, according to the different physical block, with the variance analysis method to compare thermal difference. Research results: physical presence of viscera thermal difference.
We will also in 166 cases of biased constitution (in addition to flat and matter other than the eight constitution) and 111 cases of flat and physical thermal state were compared, found biased constitution in the Du, char and left lumbar region there cool deviates from the characteristic, Yuanyang is the main cause of the decline of constitution.

        The use of infrared imaging detection technology in traditional Chinese medicine, we in the clinical diagnosis and treatment in some patients, such as cold case, hyperthermia for palace infertility investigation, obtain good clinical validation.

        Infrared imaging detection technology used in clinical medicine advantage

        The accuracy of clinical syndrome differentiation in TCM has been the impact of traditional Chinese medicine curative effect with key. At present, the clinical patient medication complex, disease development perplexing, so the patient's syndrome of cold and hot strength inclusions is unclear, clinical diagnosis is very difficult. Modern traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation by using traditional methods, mainly by patient subjective information, fuzzy, the subjectivity is too strong, can not be quantified, diagnosis technology is backward, restricted the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Infrared imaging detection technology, the chills and fever symptoms, objective data, and at the same time show viscera meridians and acupoints of general information, fully in line with the traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis" outside change in knowledge, know, know Chang Da" principle, in combination with the clinical symptoms, combined with traditional Chinese medicine clinicians on patient identification and evaluation of curative effect of syndrome. It is worth mentioning that, the technology in a certain sense reflects appeared in the medical pathological changes, including inflammation, tumor, circulatory disorders.

        Infrared imaging detection technology on the human body without injury, the detection process is simple and convenient, no environmental pollution, low price and have entered detection, medical insurance catalogue. After a number of hospital use, have been the subject of many clinicians recognized, is expected to become the contemporary clinical doctor of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation and treatment tool.